IN PRAISE OF THE ADJECTIVE
He doffed his cap. He doffed his chewy black licorice cap. I rest my case.
He doffed his cap. He doffed his chewy black licorice cap. I rest my case.
Loon: Today’s celebrity ghost for the 3 question interview, one Mr. Samuel Becker, was a writer of some note, I am told. Looks a little like the homeless guy living under my shed. Welcome, Mr. Becker. Tell me, did you ever have a run in with a sheriff? Beckett’s ghost: The lawn, the lawn, the […]
Opening a bait shop in Saskatoon was the one thing on Victor’s bucket list that he never got around to doing.
When playing Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Victor: a. wore this costume on set and off for the duration of the shoot. b. tried, but failed, to maintain dignity while wearing the twig hat. c. was not amused when Mickey Rooney borrowed his lipstick. d. dreamed of opening a bait shop in Saskatoon. e. […]
You’ll need: 1 haunch 1 oven 1 stick 1 bottle of vodka 1 clove 1 random other stuff Beat haunch with stick until you grow weary. Fortify self from vodka bottle. Take clove and rub it lightly over your lips. Kiss haunch. Fortify self with vodka. Bread the haunch, preferably with another variety of meat. […]
I’ll write a poem today to rhyme in the usual way I’ll end with a capper an odd little zapper Oh, how the moon clenches its fist!
Be on guard. The Midnight Knives are afoot. They scritch, clanking along the cobbles in line, ever on the lookout for their next victim. What lo! Is this an unwary baker heading to task at a pre-dawn oven? The Midnight Knives arrange themselves in presentation mode and unfurl their banner. They sing: Good morning to […]
TENDER VOLES THE GREATEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN DISPLAYS RANCID ENTITLEMENT DARKLY WRY BOLDLY SKIPS WHERE OTHERS DARE NOT SLITHER A STUNNING COUNTERPOINT TO ANYTHING ETHICAL IN ITS CHEAP CONSTRUCT
Vilma played the kazoo better than anyone else in L.A. In fact, she taught kazoo. Marion Davies and Charlie Chaplin were two of her pupils.
Silent movie star Vilma Banky, pictured here at a Pasadena garden party with Valentino lookalike Herb Flantz, was: a. linked romantically to Roman Link, a screenwriter for Warner Brothers. b. Miss Bronx Apple Cider in 1919. c. able to stand on tiptoe for hours,and often did. d. the unseen hand behind quite a few leveraged […]